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Immortal Melancholia: A Psychoanalytical Study of Byronic Heroes
… is a literary archetype inspired by the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824). Typical characteristics include angst, arrogance, cunning intelligence, criminality, desire, passion, dominance, and otherness. The characters I have chosen to study include Mr. Rochester from <em>Jane Eyre …
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Symbols and their roles in society : a study using Q methodology.
… is to empirically test the particular theory of George Gordon in this area. Gordon hypothesized that institutions promulgate symbols. Through the use of what he termed the symbolic umbrella, Gordon argued that the 72 symbols constituting the symbolic umbrella were disseminated by three prominent …
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Images of hope : the pursuit of wholeness in Byron's Corsair.
Critics often describe Byron's Corsair as a hastily written, tragic tale of an outlaw who eventually drowns himself. Yet in spite of its rapid creation over a ten day period, The Corsair is a coherent work of literature in which all of the poem's compositional elements reflect the common Romantic …
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King, father, or husband? : the dilemma of justice in Byron's Parisina.
Byron's last romance during the years of fame, Parisina, was written during the four-year period dating from his return to England in 1812 until his final departure from that country in the spring of 1816. Parisina was the product of the forces at work on Byron's mind during this period: the deaths …
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An investigation by electron paramagnetic resonance of the Jahn-Teller effect in LiNbO₃¿:Cu²+
EPR spectra for copper doped single crystals of LiNbO have been studied at temperatures from 1.3K to 133K. Copper, a 3d ion configuration, substitutes for one of the cations (site symmetry of C3) as Cu+. As a result of coupling to lattice vibrations, the ground manifold consists of a doubly …
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Byron's Use of Contemporary History in Don Juan
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The Autobiographical Elements of Lord Byron's Poetry
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Albie the mad Albanian: The cross-cultural influence between Byron and Albania
<p>The subject of Byron and Albania has been historically neglected but merits study for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the importance Byron himself gave to Albania. While Western Byron scholars have tended either to omit discussion of Albania or to conflate Albania with Greece in …
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An Evaluation of Byron's Criticism in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
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Kierkegaard And Byron: Disability, Irony, And The Undead
After enumerating the implicit and explicit references to Lord Byron in the corpus of Søren Kierkegaard, chapter 1, "Kierkegaard and Byron," provides a historical backdrop by surveying the influence of Byron and Byronism on the literary circles of Golden Age Copenhagen. Chapter 2, "Disability," …
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Byron and 'the Barbarous . . . Middle Age of Man': Youth, Aging, and Midlife in Don Juan
<p>For Byron, the knowledge that he would one day have to become old was always on his mind. By the time Byron had relocated to the Continent, the idea had become something of an obsession. Thirty had always been Byron's turning point, the age at which youth would have to end and he would have to …
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Enemy life: theorizing exile through Milton, Shelley and Byron
<p>This dissertation investigates the contemporary discourse and conceptions of exile as it is presented by Milton, Shelley and Byron. Utilizing biopolitical theory as a lens, it posits that the Satanic iteration or narrative of exile embodies the reality of worldly exile. As such the dissertation …